I’m really such a weirdo, because, I’m full of contradictions. I guess I’m supposed to be that way because I’m a Gemini. I don’t know. Take this one, for instance. I love water. I love it – I love swimming, I love bathing – I just love water. When I was a toddler, the neighbor would call up my mother and ask her what time I was taking my bath so that she could come and watch! Seriously! I just have always loved the water that much! However, here’s the contradiction – big open water scares me to death. And, of course, that has changed as I’ve grown. Like when I was a little kid, big open water meant the deep end of a big pool. Now the deep end is no big deal. The wide, open waters of the ocean, though – that’s another story entirely. I’m terrified, completely terrified, of the ocean. And seeing how my motion sickness is so bad, I’ll probably never have to face that fear. Seriously, what if you head out to that big, wide ocean and your vessel sinks?! Agghhh! It would be good, though, to have some wise, authority figure to assure the public about vessel sinking, wouldn’t it?

GO READ A BOOK!

It is actually almost time for school to start back up. The summer is so much shorter than it used to be. Thank goodness the kids get a fall break, at least! But we will need to go shopping for school clothes and we better do it pretty soon! My daughter was listing to me last night all of the things that she needs and my head was starting to spin! Her backpack is broken, so she needs a new backpack, and she needs her school supplies, and she needs new clothes, and she needs new shoes. And then, of course, we get to multiply that by three. I always wanted a bunch of kids, and I guess this is one time of year that I can be grateful I didn’t get my wish! And with the boys being in high school, they are starting to notice that clothes and shoes from the discount stores aren’t really all that cool. I can see that some compromises will have to be made, because, while we may not buy them Air Jordan shoes, we might see what the local sports store has that is a little better from the giant discount stores. They can save up some of their own money from chores and birthdays and stuff to get some of the more expensive shoes, if they really want them. Personally, I would rather buy some mid-price shoes, and use the money I saved to buy books! I just can’t see spending oodles of money on shoes like that. And I usually buy used books, at that!

We were thinking, even though we just had a very long vacation in Dallas, that we might go on one more vacation before the school year started. And really, although the kids and I relaxed quite a bit in Dallas, Daddy Bookworm was working every day while we were there. So it would seem totally reasonable that he would want to go somewhere. It would be so awesome if we could go to Florida and maybe get a Orlando vacation rental, but, I think that would probably be out of our price range. It would definitely be fun, and we are so much closer now. But we’ll probably just keep talking about going down to Gulf Shores. I know we could do that for a lot less money. One of these days, though, we are going to have to make that Florida trip! Daddy Bookworm spent most of his childhood in Florida, and I’m sure he would love to visit, and the kids would just about die to go to Disney World!

GO READ A BOOK!